When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

There is more to someone being lovable than the way they look.

Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

No love can survive muteness.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?" "All right," he whispers.